Universal Scientific Indust (Corp.)
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern KWRWKRWKW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2588
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Apr. 1999 — Universal Scientific Indust (Corp.) (tartans-authority, record)
Presented to the employees in April 1999 at an accreditation ceremony at the opening of their new plant in Irvine. "Universal Scientific Industrial Co., Ltd. (USI), established in 1976, is a leading global company in the DMS industry. With its Design-to-Distribution total solutions and module-to-systems product offerings, USI is recognized as the strategic DMS partner for Global Brands in 4C (Computing, Communications, Consumer Electronics and Car Electronics) industries. Integrating its core technologies of Computing, Wireless Communication and Video/Audio Processing, USI offers high quality, value-added and cost-competitive products covering 4C application fields. - 01/01/2005 — Universal Scientific Industrial (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for the opening of their Irvine (Scotland) plant in June 1999. 'Universal Scientific Industrial Co., Ltd. (USI), established in 1976, is a leading global company in the DMS industry. With its Design-to-Distribution total solutions and module-to-systems product offerings, USI is recognized as the strategic DMS partner for Global Brands in 4C (Computing, Communications, Consumer Electronics and Car Electronics) industries. Integrating its core technologies of Computing, Wireless Communication and Video/Audio Processing, USI offers high quality, value-added and cost-competitive products covering 4C application fields.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- Apr. 1999 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 4402
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2588
Thread count
K/76 LB4 O48 W4 K32 O12 LB4 K6 LB/10
One full sett is 306 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s9/k38lb2o24w2k16o6lb2k3lb5~x2/